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Definition of brood

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Brood (v. i.) To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen her chickens, in order to warm and protect them; hence, to sit quietly, as if brooding..

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Polygoneutic :: Polygoneutic (a.) Having two or more broods in a season.

Nye :: Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.

Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate..

Eelfare :: Eelfare (n.) A brood of eels.

Subjective :: Subjective (a.) Especially, pertaining to, or derived from, one's own consciousness, in distinction from external observation; ralating to the mind, or intellectual world, in distinction from the outward or material excessively occupied with, or brooding over, one's own internal states..

Eye :: Eye (n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants..

Abrood :: Abrood (adv.) In the act of brooding.

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) That which is bred or produced; breed; species.

Sitting :: Sitting (n.) A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls..

Morose :: Morose (a.) Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.

Cluck :: Cluck (v. i.) To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To think anxiously or moodily upon.

Covey :: Covey (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens..

Brood :: Brood (v. t.) To sit over, cover, and cherish; as, a hen broods her chickens..

Hatch :: Hatch (n.) The chickens produced at once or by one incubation; a brood.

Brooding :: Brooding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Broo.

Brood :: Brood (a.) Kept for breeding from; as, a brood mare; brood stock; having young; as, a brood sow..

Melancholia :: Melancholia (n.) A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas..

Cove :: Cove (v. t.) To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs..